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SAP Ariba solutions and SAP S/4HANA | SAP Supplier Relationship Management
Benefits
•• Transformed spend management efficiency
and control through an end-to-end source-
to-settle solution suite integrated to the
digital core of SAP S/4HANA
•• Increased savings through complete
coverage for all spend and expense types,
including direct, indirect, services, MRO,
capital projects, and contingent labor
•• Improved satisfaction and adoption through
a best-in-class user experience that makes
it simple for employees to make smart,
compliant purchases fast
•• Streamlined financial supply chain
management to boost capture of early
payment discounts, extend days payable
outstanding, and enhance free cash flow
•• Reduced total cost of ownership for
managing procure-to-pay processes
through cloud-based automation and
quick-to-deploy solutions that scale globally
SAP® Ariba® Solutions and
SAP S/4HANA®: The Path to
Procurement Transformation
SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) has long served to streamline
and standardize the sourcing and procurement functions within your organization,
along with automating your processes to increase efficiencies. Now SAP is taking
the next steps to enable companies to achieve a complete digital transformation
in procurement, using SAP S/4HANA® as the digital core, along with the rich capa-
bilities of SAP® Ariba® solutions.
With SAP Ariba solutions, SAP S/4HANA, and SAP Fieldglass solutions, SAP offers
the most complete solution suite to manage the entire source-to-settle process:
•• It has breadth: It can manage each step of this process – from sourcing, to
procurement, to payments.
•• It has depth: It can manage diverse spending and expense types – direct;
indirect; services; maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO); capital projects;
and contingent labor.
•• It has reach: It connects and allows collaboration between you and a broad net-
work of partners and trusted suppliers.
WHY MOVE TO SAP ARIBA?
•• Digital transformation: Strategically transform your overall spend manage-
ment with speed and innovation in the cloud. As an SAP customer, leverage
the latest technologies SAP has to offer and capitalize on SAP Ariba and
SAP S/4HANA as the go-forward solution, including the latest innovations in
procurement, such as the guided buying capability and SAP Ariba Solutions
for Direct Spend.
•• User experience (UX): Benefit from the latest UX innovations, and increase
user satisfaction and drive adoption with a best-in-class solution. Leverage an
easy-to-use interface, broad functionalities, and a connected platform to make
it easy for your employees to be guided through their buying process and use
marketplaces for tail spend while staying compliant with corporate policies.
•• Total cost of ownership: Reduce the total cost of ownership for your current
source-to-settle process by moving to the cloud. Chief procurement officers
around the globe embrace automation through shared service centers and lead
digital transformation while continuously delivering savings. SAP Ariba solutions
are easy to use, quick to deploy, and can scale globally.
 TRANSITION OPTIONS
About SAP® Ariba®
Solutions To help your company determine whether an on-premise or cloud solution best
fits your SAP SRM scenario, you require a tailor-made plan based on your current
SAP® Ariba® solutions support the business challenges, combined with your company IT plan and vision. You have
marketplace for modern business, creating several choices based on your as-is situation and strategy. The chart below
frictionless exchanges between millions of summarizes the most common transition paths and SRM replacement scenario.
buyers and suppliers across the entire
source-to-pay process. Our market-leading
solutions enable companies to simplify
SAP Supplier Relationship Management
Stepping stone before
moving to SAP S/4HANA
collaboration with their trading partners,
make smarter business decisions, and
SAP S/4HANA + SAP SRM +
extend their collaborative business SAP S/4HANA + SAP Ariba Application SAP Ariba Application SAP Ariba Application
processes with an open technology Ariba Network Suite + Ariba Network Suite + Ariba Network Suite + Ariba Network
platform. More than 3 million companies
You are focused on Your primary business case is
use SAP Ariba solutions to connect and •
transforming IT with an ERP
•
procurement transformation
• You are driving a digital IT • You want to benefit from the
transformation agenda latest cloud innovations
collaborate around nearly US$1 trillion in suite and expect essential • Strategic sourcing and supplier (including procurement • IT is not ready to transform
procurement process support management are critical to the transformation)
commerce on an annual basis. To learn as part of the core foundation
core to S/4HANA in the near
business goal; operational • Procurement will be tightly term – keep SRM in place as a
more about SAP Ariba solutions and the • Main focus is digital IT procurement scope is indirect, connected to the back end in a stepping stone
transformation MRO, and services spend single end-to-end system
transformation they are driving, visit • The recommendation is to
• IT has no immediate plan to go The recommendation is to complement SAP SRM by
www.ariba.com.
•
to SAP S/4HANA; system manage procurement using SAP Ariba innovations
landscape may be processes in the SAP Ariba like SAP Ariba Spot Buy
heterogeneous and have application suite integrated to Catalog, SAP Ariba Catalog,
multiple ERPs across the globe S/4HANA for core processes SAP Ariba Sourcing, and/or
Ariba Network on top of SAP
SRM while IT is preparing the
SAP S/4HANA transformation
Your IT strategy drives SAP’s recommendation for either SAP S/4HANA or SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
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WHAT’S THE VALUE?

The integration of SAP S/4HANA with SAP Ariba solutions enables a tangible
change in the performance, speed, visibility, and control of your procurement
solutions.
•• Buy and pay at negotiated savings rates: Modern, easy-to-use SAP Ariba solu-
tions enable your users to follow the right policy to buy the right goods and ser-
vices from the right supplier at the right price – enabling you to save more on
what you already strategically source. Companies have saved at least 1-2% of
target spend in contract leakage avoidance.
•• Free up working capital: SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA integrate together to
streamline your financial supply chain, helping you capture more early pay-
ment discounts and extend days payable outstanding (DPO) to increase free
cash flow.
•• Lower operating costs: You can also reduce the cost of processing purchase
orders, invoices, and payments and improve supplier onboarding time using the
end-to-end solution suite offered by SAP Ariba along with SAP S/4HANA.

GET STARTED TODAY

To realize the benefits of procurement transformation in your organization,

contact your local SAP or SAP Ariba sales/services representative. To learn more,
you can:
•• Register to attend our free online course, “Procurement Transformation with
SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA,” at ari.ba/srm-course.
•• Visit our Web page at ari.ba/future-of-srm and complete the brief transforma-
tion survey. We’ll get in touch with you shortly.

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